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<p><span>So you have gone through the <a href="https://www.forrester.com/The+Business+Intelligence+Playbook+For+2016/-/E-PLA590">Discover and Plan of your Business Intelligence (BI) strategy</a> and are ready to staff your <a href="https://www.forrester.com/report/Build+An+Agile+BI+Organization/-/E-RES47315">BI support organization</a>. What skills, experience, expertise and qualifications should you be looking for?</span></p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/boris_evelson/16-12-08-business_intelligence_skills" title="Read the rest of &#039;Business Intelligence Skills&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a><div class="categories"><h3>Categories:</h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy_term_356 first"><a href="/category/analytics" rel="tag" alt="See other content with this tag." title="See other content with this tag.">Analytics</a></li>
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</ul></div>http://blogs.forrester.com/boris_evelson/16-12-08-business_intelligence_skills#commentsAnalyticsApplication Developmentbig databusiness insightsbusiness intelligencesystems of insightThu, 08 Dec 2016 14:54:46 +0000Boris Evelson12707 at http://blogs.forrester.comWant To Create Action From Big Data? Look At Enterprise Insight Platform Suiteshttp://blogs.forrester.com/brian_hopkins/16-12-07-want_to_create_action_from_big_data_look_at_enterprise_insight_platform_suites
<p>By now firms are deep into their big data investments -- and frustrated. Too many new and rapidly evolving technologies are built on an open source and named after a bunch of zoo animals. The term <em>insight platform</em> has struck a chord with technology buyers exactly because it offers a path out of this mess. In fact, <em>insight platform</em> was the number-one emerging technology in terms of investment and interest in Forrester's Q3 2016 Global State Of Enterprise Architecture And Portfolio Management Online Survey.</p>
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<p>What exactly is an insight platform though? I introduced the term in my May blog post <a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/brian_hopkins/16-05-03-insight_platforms_have_arrived">Insight Platforms Have Arrived</a> and then refined it and explained the vendor landscape in my August post <a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/brian_hopkins/16-08-09-tame_the_beast_forresters_insight_platform_vendor_landscape">Tame The Beast: Forrester's Insight Platform Vendor Landscape</a>. Over the last few months, we have been conducting a Forrester Wave&trade; evaluation of the most mature segment of the market, enterprise insight platform suites, which are:</p>
<p>"&hellip;Integrated or partially integrated suites of data management, analytics, and insight execution components that require some integration and configuration to form a platform<a><em>."</em></a></p>
<p>We looked at seven vendors in our evaluation -- IBM, Oracle, Pivotal, SAP, SAS, Teradata, and TIBCO. All of these vendor have the proven ability to meet the most demanding requirement for enteprise data management and analytics; however, our standards for insights platforms were very high were very hight. Not only did we expect the vendors to have performed well in Forrester Waves on individual products, we wanted them to have top-notch reference customer ratings, and we actually expected their suites to behave more like platforms, not just a bunch of tools.</p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/brian_hopkins/16-12-07-want_to_create_action_from_big_data_look_at_enterprise_insight_platform_suites" title="Read the rest of &#039;Want To Create Action From Big Data? Look At Enterprise Insight Platform Suites&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a>http://blogs.forrester.com/brian_hopkins/16-12-07-want_to_create_action_from_big_data_look_at_enterprise_insight_platform_suites#commentsEnterprise ArchitectureWed, 07 Dec 2016 20:53:18 +0000Brian Hopkins12706 at http://blogs.forrester.comVelocity with quality mandates a model based approach to ARA tools and DevOpshttp://blogs.forrester.com/robert_stroud/16-12-07-velocity_with_quality_mandates_a_model_based_approach_to_ara_tools_and_devops
<h1>DevOps velocity mandates change velocity</h1>
<p>Enterprises today are focusing on delivering applications faster to drive customer experiences and drive business transformation to meet rising expectations. For some, faster delivery is simply faster time to disappointment where the delivery process is shoddy and speed is the only metric. Speed without quality in an oxymoron - and extremely dangerous. The automation of the process known as Application Release Automation (ARA) is one of the critical impediments in the DevOps journey for I&amp;O organizations today. ARA tools are designed to remove errors from manual processes by standardizing and automating the movement of applications with middleware and infrastructure - the critical final step in the delivery pipeline of applications to deliver customer value.</p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/robert_stroud/16-12-07-velocity_with_quality_mandates_a_model_based_approach_to_ara_tools_and_devops" title="Read the rest of &#039;Velocity with quality mandates a model based approach to ARA tools and DevOps&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a><div class="categories"><h3>Categories:</h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy_term_13754 first"><a href="/category/ara_tools" rel="tag" alt="See other content with this tag." title="See other content with this tag.">ARA Tools</a></li>
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</ul></div>http://blogs.forrester.com/robert_stroud/16-12-07-velocity_with_quality_mandates_a_model_based_approach_to_ara_tools_and_devops#commentsARA ToolsAgileApplication Release AutomationAutomationDevOpsIT InfrastructureModelscloud computingWed, 07 Dec 2016 20:38:58 +0000Robert Stroud12705 at http://blogs.forrester.comAmazon Go Ushers In A New Era In Retail Technologyhttp://blogs.forrester.com/nigel_fenwick/16-12-06-amazon_go_ushers_in_a_new_era_in_retail_technology
<p>Amazon&#39;s new Amazon Go store ushers in a new era in brick and mortar grocery and convenience shopping. In the early 80&#39;s, electronic point of sale (POS) dramatically changed the checkout experience in grocery stores, speeding up checkout lines. Today, a checkout without POS is unthinkable unless it&#39;s a farm stand on the side of the road &hellip; and even here we&#39;re likely to see Square hooked up to a smartphone. But even with POS, the checkout has always been the big time waster in any grocery shopping experience. Until this week.</p>
<p>Six years ago, &quot;<a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/nigel_fenwick/10-04-06-ultimate_grocery_shopping_app">The Ultimate Grocery Shopping App</a>&quot; described a future in which the grocery shopping experience was radically different from what existed in 2010. This week, Amazon has brought part of that vision to life by opening its first Amazon Go brick and mortar convenience store for Amazon employees in Seattle. A convenience store with no checkout lines &hellip; with no checkout.</p>
<p>Gone are the POS systems. Welcome to the era of automatic checkout. Amazon has used new technologies like image recognition and machine learning to go beyond at least some of the experience predicted back in 2010. Instead of shoppers having to scan items into their shopping cart, Amazon uses this advanced technology to track what shoppers pick up and add to their cart and what they put back on the shelf. No scanning, no checkout &hellip; just walk out and pay.</p>
<p>Why will this take off? Becuase it gives shoppers back significant time savings and it gives retailers potentially enormous costs savings.</p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/nigel_fenwick/16-12-06-amazon_go_ushers_in_a_new_era_in_retail_technology" title="Read the rest of &#039;Amazon Go Ushers In A New Era In Retail Technology&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a><div class="categories"><h3>Categories:</h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy_term_185 first"><a href="/category/amazon" rel="tag" alt="See other content with this tag." title="See other content with this tag.">Amazon</a></li>
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</ul></div>http://blogs.forrester.com/nigel_fenwick/16-12-06-amazon_go_ushers_in_a_new_era_in_retail_technology#commentsAmazonCIOCIOPOSeposgroceryretailTue, 06 Dec 2016 20:31:59 +0000Nigel Fenwick12703 at http://blogs.forrester.comAPM Is Hot. Don't Laugh, I'm Serious.http://blogs.forrester.com/milan_hanson/16-12-05-apm_is_hot_dont_laugh_im_serious
<p>I cover the APM market for I&amp;O professionals, and it seems that every week I am briefed by yet another vendor entering the APM market. I wonder "What's the attraction? Why is APM so hot?" Maybe it's the mess.</p>
<p>I'm weird. I like cleaning up after Thanksgiving dinner. Why? Because it's a huge mess. A little effort produces the dramatic result of a clean kitchen, ready for the next attack: leftovers.</p>
<p>In September Forrester published <a href="https://www.forrester.com/report/The+Forrester+Wave+Application+Performance+Management+Q3+2016/-/E-RES124341">The Forrester Wave&trade;: Application Performance Management, Q3 2016.</a> For vendors entering the APM market, it's your guide to be a contender. For clients seeking an APM solution, it's your guide to what's available.</p>
<p>The Wave evaluates fourteen vendors on twenty-eight criteria. We selected these fourteen as key players based on their functionality, market presence and the fact that they are most frequently mentioned in our conversations with clients. Of course there are more than fourteen APM vendors in the market. </p>
<p>For a bigger list of vendors, see the Forrester report <a href="https://www.forrester.com/report/Vendor+Landscape+Application+Performance+Management+Including+Mobile+APM+Q2+2016/-/E-RES128223">Vendor Landscape: Application Performance Management, Including Mobile APM, Q2 2016.</a>It includes twenty-six vendors, and even that isn't all of them -- more vendors enter the APM market every week.</p>
<p>The "mess" that attracts vendors to this market is that I&amp;O teams face an eternal battle to deliver&hellip;</p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/milan_hanson/16-12-05-apm_is_hot_dont_laugh_im_serious" title="Read the rest of &#039;APM Is Hot. Don&amp;#039;t Laugh, I&amp;#039;m Serious.&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a><div class="categories"><h3>Categories:</h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy_term_10590 first last"><a href="/category/apm" rel="tag" alt="See other content with this tag." title="See other content with this tag.">APM</a></li>
</ul></div>http://blogs.forrester.com/milan_hanson/16-12-05-apm_is_hot_dont_laugh_im_serious#commentsAPMIT InfrastructureMon, 05 Dec 2016 16:16:35 +0000Milan Hanson12701 at http://blogs.forrester.comDevelopers: Will AI Run You Out Of Your Job?http://blogs.forrester.com/diego_lo_giudice/16-12-02-developers_will_ai_run_you_out_of_your_job
<p>Much has been written about how artificial intelligence (AI) will put white-collar workers out of a job eventually. Will robots soon be able to do what programmers do best -- i.e., <a href="https://www.forrester.com/report/How+AI+Will+Change+Software+Development+And+Applications/-/E-RES121339">write software programs</a>? Actually, if you are or were a developer, you've probably already written or used software programs that can generate other software programs. That's called code generation; in the past, it was done through "next" generation programming languages (such as a second-, third-, fourth-, or even fifth-generation languages), today are called low code IDEs. But also Java, C and C++ geeks have been turning high level graphical models like UML or BPML into code. But that's not what I am talking about: I am talking about a robot (or bot) or AI software system that, if given a business requirement in natural language, can write the code to implement it -- or even come up with its own idea and write a program for it.</p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/diego_lo_giudice/16-12-02-developers_will_ai_run_you_out_of_your_job" title="Read the rest of &#039;Developers: Will AI Run You Out Of Your Job?&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a><div class="categories"><h3>Categories:</h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy_term_10306 first"><a href="/category/ai" rel="tag" alt="See other content with this tag." title="See other content with this tag.">AI</a></li>
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<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d453820c-bafe-c449-43c7-26d6aa594773"><span>Over the past few years, we've seen a flurry of consultancies acquiring agencies. Acquity, BGT Partners, Lunar, and Cynergy are just some of the agencies that have been scooped up. </span><span>The agencies and consultancy convergence has radically altered the conversation for marketers looking to purchase marketing services. They now have a new category of provider to consider and new capabilities to assess across the board. And marketers are paying attention: </span><a href="https://www.forrester.com/report/Move+Over+Agencies+Consultancies+Offer+Marketers+New+Options/-/E-RES132821"><span>73% of marketers told us in a recent survey that they were somewhat open, open, or very open to using consultancies for digital marketing work</span></a><span>. </span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d453820c-bafe-c449-43c7-26d6aa594773"><span>For the most part, consultancies have stuck to acquiring interactive agencies who have skills in web and mobile development and user experience design. But in 2016, the game has changed: IBM acquired creative agency Resource/Ammirati in January and Deloitte acquired creative agency Heat in February. Yesterday, Accenture upped the ante and announced its own acquisition of one of the largest, UK-based independent creative agencies, Karmarama, within the Accenture Interactive division.</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d453820c-bafe-c449-43c7-26d6aa594773"><span>Forrester believes this acquisition will create new market opportunities for Accenture Interactive: </span></span></p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/anjali_yakkundi/16-12-01-another_agency_gets_gobbled_up_accenture_announces_the_acquisition_of_karmarama" title="Read the rest of &#039;Another Agency Gets Gobbled Up: Accenture Announces The Acquisition Of Karmarama &#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a>http://blogs.forrester.com/anjali_yakkundi/16-12-01-another_agency_gets_gobbled_up_accenture_announces_the_acquisition_of_karmarama#commentsApplication DevelopmentThu, 01 Dec 2016 15:27:31 +0000Anjali Yakkundi12700 at http://blogs.forrester.comTake a Pragmatic Approach To Personalization http://blogs.forrester.com/anjali_yakkundi/16-11-28-take_a_pragmatic_approach_to_personalization
<p><em>Co-authored by Allison Cazalet </em></p>
<p>Has the topic of personalization come up within your organization recently? Chances are that personalization not only comes up, it's also a foremost priority: 68% of the firms we surveyed in our Q1 2016 Digital Experience Delivery Online Survey said personalization was one of the most important initiatives for their business today. Why? Because personalization is one of the best ways to contextually engage with customers across a variety of touch points. But many organizations we speak with today struggle to get initiatives off the ground and struggle to prove the business value of personalization.</p>
<p>To help organizations get started on their personalization program, my colleague Ted Schadler and I researched how best-in-class organizations today have operationalized personalization. The most successful firms we spoke with created a four-pronged personalization program that Forrester calls POST:</p>
<p><strong>P</strong>eople - Before doing anything else, successful firms ask and answer this question: Which customers am I trying to reach and serve? In order to implement a successful personalization program, you will need to do the same by researching your customers in their context so that you know which ones to prioritize. </p>
<p><strong>O</strong>bjectives - The next step to a successful personalization program is to make sure you and your personalization team have an in depth understanding of what you are trying to accomplish. You <em>must</em> keep this simple. Determine what business outcome you are optimizing, the experiences you will personalize, and what data you need to make it all happen.</p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/anjali_yakkundi/16-11-28-take_a_pragmatic_approach_to_personalization" title="Read the rest of &#039;Take a Pragmatic Approach To Personalization &#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a>http://blogs.forrester.com/anjali_yakkundi/16-11-28-take_a_pragmatic_approach_to_personalization#commentsApplication DevelopmentMon, 28 Nov 2016 18:23:55 +0000Anjali Yakkundi12695 at http://blogs.forrester.comIs Data Visualization A Separate Market Or Just A Feature Of Business Intelligence Platforms?http://blogs.forrester.com/boris_evelson/16-11-23-is_data_visualization_a_separate_market_or_just_a_feature_of_business_intelligence_platforms
<p>Lots of my clients are confused. They start a Forrester inquiry with a question about data visualization capabilities, but when I lead them into discussion about business intelligence (BI) platforms, they say &quot;but we already have a BI platform. All we really want is an ability to create and share data visualizations&quot;. Is there a separate market for that? If there is, I am not aware of one. Here&#39;s my take on it:</p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/boris_evelson/16-11-23-is_data_visualization_a_separate_market_or_just_a_feature_of_business_intelligence_platforms" title="Read the rest of &#039;Is Data Visualization A Separate Market Or Just A Feature Of Business Intelligence Platforms?&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a>http://blogs.forrester.com/boris_evelson/16-11-23-is_data_visualization_a_separate_market_or_just_a_feature_of_business_intelligence_platforms#commentsApplication DevelopmentWed, 23 Nov 2016 19:49:15 +0000Boris Evelson12694 at http://blogs.forrester.comAI Is The Sincerest Form of Flattery ... And Fearhttp://blogs.forrester.com/mike_gualtieri/16-11-22-ai_is_the_sincerest_form_of_flattery_and_fear
<p>Pure <a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/mike_gualtieri/16-11-02-artificial_intelligence_fact_fiction_how_enterprises_can_crush_it">AI </a>is true intelligence that can mimic or exceed the intelligence of human beings. It is still a long way off, if it can even ever be achieved. But what if <a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/mike_gualtieri/16-11-02-artificial_intelligence_fact_fiction_how_enterprises_can_crush_it">AI</a> became pure -- could perceive, think, act, and even replicate as we do? Look to humanity for the answer. Humanity has been both beautiful and brutal:</p>
<ul>
<li>The <em>beauty</em> of ingenuity, survival, exploration, art, and kindness.</li>
<li>The <em>brutality</em> of crime, war, and pettiness.</li>
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<p><strong>What would pure <a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/mike_gualtieri/16-11-12-micro_explanations_for_nine_essential_ai_technologies">AI</a> grow up to be?</strong></p>
<p>An equal, positive partner of humanity -- the best of us? Or a self-serving technology that perceives humanity as a threat?</p>
<p>The spooky stuff aside, <a href="https://www.forrester.com/mike%20gualtieri">I</a> firmly believe that all organizations (including governments) must formulate an AI strategy now. AI will enable organizations and individuals to do the things they have always been doing better and to do new things that they have always wanted to do. Donald Fagen, of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steely_Dan">Steely Dan</a> fame, imagined in his 1982 <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nightfly-DONALD-FAGEN/dp/B000002KXV">"I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)"</a> lyrics <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k1m9TevgJM">(hear the song - it&#39;s great)</a> an AI future that you will develop if you choose to do so:</p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/mike_gualtieri/16-11-22-ai_is_the_sincerest_form_of_flattery_and_fear" title="Read the rest of &#039;AI Is The Sincerest Form of Flattery ... And Fear&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a><div class="categories"><h3>Categories:</h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy_term_10306 first"><a href="/category/ai" rel="tag" alt="See other content with this tag." title="See other content with this tag.">AI</a></li>
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<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-eed56134-7302-609e-c716-16636b991d46"><span>Each year, Forrester Research and the </span><a href="http://www.drj.com/"><span>Disaster Recovery Journal</span></a><span> team up to launch a study examining the state of business resiliency. Each year, we focus on a particular resiliency domain: IT disaster recovery, business continuity, or overall enterprise risk management. The studies provide BC pros, DR pros, and other risk managers an understanding of how they compare to the overall industry and to their peers. While each organization is unique, it&#39;s helpful to see where the industry is trending, and I've found that peer comparisons are always helpful when you need to understand if you're in line with industry best practices and/or you need to convince skeptical executives change is necessary.</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-eed56134-7302-609e-c716-16636b991d46"><span>This year's study will focus on IT disaster recovery or resiliency (my preferred term). We'll examine the overall state of DR maturity including organizational trends, reporting lines, staffing levels, progress towards active-active data center configurations, adoption of advanced technologies for application failover and data replication, current recovery time and recovery point capabilities, and the most common causes of downtime. In our last three surveys, the number one cause downtime has been power outages, let's see if the trend holds or if will see a new emperor of downtime like DDoS attacks.</span></span></p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/stephanie_balaouras/16-11-17-bc_dr_pros_we_need_your_help" title="Read the rest of &#039;BC &amp;amp; DR Pros, We Need Your Help!&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a><div class="categories"><h3>Categories:</h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy_term_89 first"><a href="/category/business_continuity" rel="tag" alt="See other content with this tag." title="See other content with this tag.">Business continuity</a></li>
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</ul></div>http://blogs.forrester.com/stephanie_balaouras/16-11-17-bc_dr_pros_we_need_your_help#commentsBusiness continuityDisaster recoveryEnterprise Risk ManagementSecurity and Riskbusiness technology resiliencyThu, 17 Nov 2016 16:02:42 +0000Stephanie Balaouras12683 at http://blogs.forrester.comIoT Software Platform Wave Evaluation Helps Firms Navigate The Complex Solution Landscapehttp://blogs.forrester.com/michele_pelino/16-11-17-iot_software_platform_wave_evaluation_helps_firms_navigate_the_complex_solution_landscape
<p>As businesses pursue digital initiatives, I&amp;O execs must assist their line-of-business colleagues with addressing software, security, data, and business analytics integration complexity associated with deploying these IoT solutions. Digital opportunities to use IoT include:</p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/michele_pelino/16-11-17-iot_software_platform_wave_evaluation_helps_firms_navigate_the_complex_solution_landscape" title="Read the rest of &#039;IoT Software Platform Wave Evaluation Helps Firms Navigate The Complex Solution Landscape&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a><div class="categories"><h3>Categories:</h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy_term_11240 first"><a href="/category/iot" rel="tag" alt="See other content with this tag." title="See other content with this tag.">IoT</a></li>
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</ul></div>http://blogs.forrester.com/michele_pelino/16-11-17-iot_software_platform_wave_evaluation_helps_firms_navigate_the_complex_solution_landscape#commentsIT InfrastructureIoTcloud coomputingThu, 17 Nov 2016 15:54:57 +0000Michele Pelino12682 at http://blogs.forrester.comThe Uncertain Future of Obamacare and the Healthcare Industryhttp://blogs.forrester.com/kate_mccarthy/16-11-16-the_uncertain_future_of_obamacare_and_the_healthcare_industry
<p>The results of the United States Presidential election came as a shock to almost everyone - even Trump supporters. Most prepared for a Clinton win, which would have meant that even if the Republican party held onto the House and the Senate, there would still be a relative balance of power across party lines. In that scenario, the future of Obamacare, and the healthcare industry at large, was certain to stay the course. But a Republican Congress and Presidency, makes that future less certain.</p>
<p>Republicans have talked about repealing the Affordable Care Act for six years, backing their words with actions, sending numerous bills through Congress to amend and/or repeal the Act. These efforts failed under the Obama administration, which implemented the Affordable Care Act, expanding access to health insurance to over 20 million previously uninsured lives. In the last six years, the annual increase of health spending has slowed to equal the rate of gross domestic product (GDP). The healthcare cost savings from 2010-2020 should exceed $1 trillion. More importantly, as payers and providers have adjusted their businesses to the <a href="https://www.forrester.com/report/Predictions+2017+Engaging+The+Empowered+Patient/-/E-RES134181#figure1">New Healthcare Economy</a>, we have seen improvements in quality outcomes including a 25% reduction in hospital readmissions.</p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/kate_mccarthy/16-11-16-the_uncertain_future_of_obamacare_and_the_healthcare_industry" title="Read the rest of &#039;The Uncertain Future of Obamacare and the Healthcare Industry&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a>http://blogs.forrester.com/kate_mccarthy/16-11-16-the_uncertain_future_of_obamacare_and_the_healthcare_industry#commentsCIOWed, 16 Nov 2016 14:19:26 +0000Kate McCarthy12680 at http://blogs.forrester.comWeb Summit Stakes Its Claim As One Of The Most Important Global Tech Eventshttp://blogs.forrester.com/dan_bieler/16-11-16-web_summit_stakes_its_claim_as_one_of_the_most_important_global_tech_events
<p><em>Photo: Paddy Cosgrave, CEO and co-founder of Web Summit</em></p>
<p>Recently, <a href="https://websummit.net/"><em>Web Summit</em></a> took place in Lisbon. "Web-what"? Web Summit is indeed a relative newcomer on the event scene, but you should take notice. At its core, Web Summit is all about connecting larger enterprises and investors to smaller tech companies. On a human level, Web Summit's goal is to bring together youngish and enthusiastic technology entrepreneurs with experienced investors and leading managers of technology vendors. The result is a fresh and dynamic exchange of ideas and opinions as well as the mutual mentoring of the involved participants.</p>
<p>Web Summit started only in 2009 with a few dozen bloggers, journalists, and technologists in a hotel on the outskirts of Dublin. Web Summit's rise to become one of the most important global technology conferences is remarkable. In 2016, the event already attracted 53,000 visitors from 166 countries and 15,000 companies, with 65% of visitors being senior managers, including 7,000 CEOs.</p>
<p>And still, Web Summit so far is not yet on the radar screen of many enterprise technology managers. This should change, because Web Summit is not just another gadget show that so many of the traditional global technology conferences have become. There are no shiny devices to look at and no noisy and pumping product launches. This sets Web Summit apart from other tech conferences like <a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/dan_bieler/16-03-16-observations_from_mobile_world_congress_from_a_b2b_perspective">MWC</a>, <a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/dan_bieler/14-09-12-observations_from_ifa_2014">IFA</a>, <a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/nigel_fenwick/16-01-12-welcome_to_the_age_of_innovation_perspectives_on_ces_2016">CES</a>, or <a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/dan_bieler/15-03-24-samsung_commits_to_the_business_segment_at_cebit_2015_with_iot_solutions">CeBIT</a>.</p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/dan_bieler/16-11-16-web_summit_stakes_its_claim_as_one_of_the_most_important_global_tech_events" title="Read the rest of &#039;Web Summit Stakes Its Claim As One Of The Most Important Global Tech Events&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a><div class="categories"><h3>Categories:</h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy_term_77 first"><a href="/category/innovation" rel="tag" alt="See other content with this tag." title="See other content with this tag.">Innovation</a></li>
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</ul></div>http://blogs.forrester.com/dan_bieler/16-11-16-web_summit_stakes_its_claim_as_one_of_the_most_important_global_tech_events#commentsCIOInnovationWeb Summitconferenceentrepreneurinvestorsstart-upWed, 16 Nov 2016 10:17:04 +0000Dan Bieler12679 at http://blogs.forrester.comVMware Is Evolving As A Powerful Provider Of Cloud-Based Offeringshttp://blogs.forrester.com/dan_bieler/16-11-13-vmware_is_evolving_as_a_powerful_provider_of_cloud_based_offerings
<p><em>With <a href="https://www.forrester.com/Lauren-E.-Nelson?objectid=BIO2641">Lauren Nelson</a></em></p>
<p>We recently attended <a href="http://www.vmworld.com/en/europe/index.html">VMworld 2016 Europe in Barcelona</a>. The event, which attracted about 10,000 visitors, has established itself as an important destination for anyone with an interest in virtualization-related topics. In many respects, the event was over-shadowed by the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/vmware/">VMware-AWS partnership</a>. However, the event also provided us with several additional impressions. We felt that there were several encouraging signs pointing to how VMware is progressing as a business within <a href="https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/index.htm">Dell Technologies</a>, in particular, VMware is:</p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/dan_bieler/16-11-13-vmware_is_evolving_as_a_powerful_provider_of_cloud_based_offerings" title="Read the rest of &#039;VMware Is Evolving As A Powerful Provider Of Cloud-Based Offerings&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a><div class="categories"><h3>Categories:</h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy_term_11240 first"><a href="/category/iot" rel="tag" alt="See other content with this tag." title="See other content with this tag.">IoT</a></li>
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